# H2608 חֲנַנְיָה

חֲנַנְיָה (Chănanyâh), Strong’s H2608: Chananjah, the name of thirteen Israelites KJV: Hananiah.. Occurs 29 times.

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*Chănanyâh* — Chananjah, the name of thirteen Israelites

KJV: Hananiah.

Built from [חָנַן chânan](https://besorah.bible/word/H2603) (to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferi) + [יָהּ Yâhh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3050) (Jah, the sacred name) — means “Jah has favored”

Occurs 29 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חֲנַנְיָ֫הוּ, חֲנַנְיָה n.pr.m. (י׳ hath been gracious)
- 1 father of a prince under Jehoiakim
- 2 captain of Uzziah's army
- 3 chief of one of the divisions of musicians of David
- 4 a false prophet of Jeremiah's time
- 5 one of the three companions of Daniel
- 6 grandfather of an officer of the guard in Jeremiah's time
- 7 a son of Zerubbabel
- 8 a Benjamite
- 9 various postexilic persons
- חֲנַנְיָה n.pr.m
- חֲנַנְיָה n.pr.m. (= BH id. [h.dz.ao] 5);—Dn 2:17.

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 28:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=1) — That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month…
- [Jeremiah 28:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=5) — Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the…
- [Jeremiah 28:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=10) — Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and broke it.
- [Jeremiah 28:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=11) — Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “The LORD says: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of…
- [Jeremiah 28:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=12) — Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet…
- [Jeremiah 28:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=13) — “Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘The LORD says, “You have broken the bars of wood, but you have made in their place…
- [Jeremiah 28:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=15) — Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD has not sent you, but you make this…
- [Jeremiah 28:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/28?v=17) — So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
- [Jeremiah 36:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/36?v=12) — he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s room; and behold, all the princes were sitting there, Elishama…
- [Jeremiah 37:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/37?v=13) — When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son…